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My fellow associates,

Today we, the people of Great Britain are faced with a crisis. As I stand here before you today, hundreds of Congo Natives are being assaulted, raped, maimed and persecuted all for the benefit of one person, King Leopold II of Belgium. As a nation and a body of empathetic people, it is our duty to intervene. To many innocent people are being denied basic human rights and are being slaughtered like animals. Children and grown men are getting their hands amputated by force. Women being flogged and raped. Entire villages are being burned down, all to suppress the natives of the Congo and force them into labor. Forced to travel many miles a day and for days at a time to drain the rubber out of trees and vines. Forced to

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